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An Equity Profile of Orange County
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high
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Moderate
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low
Child opportunity is lower in more racially diverse portions
of the county
Areas of lower opportunity are concentrated in portions of northern Orange County
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57. Child Opportunity Index by Census Tract
Sources: The diversitydatakids.org and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity; ESRI, HERE, Garmin, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS user
community. Note: The Child Opportunity Index is a composite of indicators across three domains: educational opportunity, health and environmen tal opportunity,
and social and economic opportunity. The vintage of the underlying indicator data varies, ranging from the year 2007 to 2013. The map was created by ranking the
census tract level Overall Child Opportunity Index Score into quintiles for the region.
The Child Opportunity Index measures
relative opportunity across neighborhoods in
the region based on indicators from three
domains: educational opportunity, health and
environmental opportunity, and social and
economic opportunity. By this measure, child
opportunities are limited for children in the
neighborhoods of of Anaheim, Buena Park,
Fullerton, and Santa Ana.
